Cuckfield is always good, rare to see many people there, easy transitions, metal coping and a hip on both sides into the shallow part. Some of the bottom part of the transitions are coming apart so a bit of an unexpected bump in parts but thats being too picky....skating at Market Harborough for years and cracks and uneven concrete are a part of skating. All these perfect parks and smooth concrete have meant that people have become spoilt.....what's needed is someone to build cracks into the design of parks like in the good old days.
Got a few clips from our trip on Saturday....me, Matt, Len and Sunay got an early start and mainly had the place to ourselves. A quick rough chuck together of the clips but more fine tuning and a plan that might come together sometime soon. John hinted at a get together of the old Rowell/ Desborough faces....Matt thought of a possible rent a night at Skaterham where we could meet up and have an indoor park to ourselves for a pretty small price....catch up and have a skate and perhaps recreate Jess's photo from our big trip to Stevenage all those years ago!!!

Waking up in Bristol over half way through the tour....Cardiff yesterday and Bristol Uni today

Wicksteed Bank Convention....more pictures....i found a few photos i took at the legendary Bank Convention and the rest of the pages from Skateboard! That issue of Skateboard! basically covered all the spots i skated during that time, Wicksteed and Market Harborough...
I was taking a few snaps that were far from mag standard...so i got this shot of Mac while Skateboard! got the pictures in the article...then again i got to be in the picture aswell as taking my own...right side of Dosset's knee pad with the dodgy helmet...and the legendary Rowell Mutie T, just waiting for Jess to do a re-run on the shirts. Iknow i posted these scans a couple of weeks ago but anyway....

Crossfire Contest at Meanwhile 2.......cinco de mayo.

Spencer was looking forward to this Crossfire jam all week but unfortunately for Spencer i had told him the wrong week, Spencer was back in Budapest King Diamond style......back in West London though the Westway was the place to be, at least under it, just where Harrow Road slopes off from under the grimy overpass, behind the garage is

Meanwhile 2.......it is skate history down there under the Westway.
The flyer was designed by French and had a lot of blood on it.....French likes

blood and metal, sounds like a good name for a Manowar tribute...besides the blood there was the bearded Haslam flying across the legendary gap wizard like...a sight sadly missed as he had a broken toe and kept his skating low profile....it wasn't hard to see though from what little stuff he was doing that he was super solid and was indeed a wizard if a bit under the weather.
I had caught sight of Chris Haslam the evening before though wandering around Waterloo looking a little lost with Lewis Marnell. They headed off up towards Westminster Bridge and i in the other direction towards Hercules Road to collect the van i was borrowing to drive the contents of our flat down south to Worthing....another story though and not much to do with the Crossfire Jam.
The video is for Spencer...i used Pailhead from Spencer's ipod....i love that song....Ian MacKaye and Al Jourgensen....asides aside the skating was amazing and the atmosphere was amazing and Crossfire pulled off another amazing day......

Tony Hawk skated the vert ramp down under the westway..........